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American workers for pro-democracy organizations in Cairo take shelter at U.S. embassy January 29, 2012
CAIRO — The American Embassy in Cairo on Sunday took the highly unusual step of sheltering U.S. citizens employed by nongovernmental organizations amid fears that they could be detained as part of a crackdown on pro-democracy groups, according to U.S. officials and a former NGO official. Read full article >>
Ernesto Londoño, William Wan
New museums in Libya reflect war experience January 30, 2012
MISURATA, Libya — Eight months after revolutionaries took control of Misurata, a strategic and bloody battlefield in Libya’s uprising against former leader Moammar Gaddafi, people are going about their lives once more. Read full article >>
Alice Fordham
Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan envoy to U.S., allowed to travel abroad January 30, 2012
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, was permitted to travel abroad Monday by the nation’s Supreme Court after two months of fending off treason allegations over his purported involvement in a mysterious memo that sought Washington’s help to neuter Pakistan’s powerful military. Read full article >> […]
Richard Leiby
FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail January 30, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. Read full article >>
Ellen Nakashima, Lisa Rein
Syrian uprising reaches the edge of Damascus January 30, 2012
DAMASCUS, Syria — The upheaval that has roiled much of Syria for the past 10 months is seeping its way into the heart of the country’s capital, puncturing the sense of invulnerability that had until recently sustained confidence in the government’s ability to survive the revolt. Read full article >>
Liz Sly
NATO allies grapple with shrinking defense budgets January 30, 2012
NATO allies are confronting a sustained weakening of the military alliance as ailing economies are forcing nearly all members, including the United States, to accelerate cuts to their defense budgets at the same time. whitlockc@washpost.com Read full article >>
Craig Whitlock
Sunni-backed bloc ends boycott of Iraq parliament January 29, 2012
BAGHDAD — A Sunni-backed political bloc ended its boycott of Iraq’s parliament Sunday, a boost for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, as he tries to consolidate power in the wake of the U.S. troop departure. Read full article >>
Dan Morse
Hamas leader Khaled Meshal visits Jordan’s King Abdullah II as relations ease January 29, 2012
AMMAN, Jordan — Signaling a thaw in relations, Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday hosted Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, who made his first official visit to the country since his expulsion more than a decade ago in a crackdown on the militant Islamist group. Read full article >>
Joel Greenberg
In Afghan war, rate of post-injury survival rises January 30, 2012
There has probably never been a war in which there has been as much on-the-job improvement in the care of the wounded than there has been in the United States’ war in Afghanistan. Of course, at 10 years and counting, there has been a lot of time for practice. Read full article >>
David Brown
Clinton: Done with the ‘high wire’ of politics. Really. January 26, 2012
Like President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hasn’t been watching the Republican primary debates. But at least Clinton has an excuse for tuning out — she says she’s quitting government after the election no matter who wins. Read full article >>
Karen DeYoung